The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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